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Life – a user's manual Part II - Boksidan

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Mora daily 1915<br />

Bank & finance<br />

Candy<br />

Farming equipment<br />

Lotteries<br />

Journals and books<br />

The most common subject of<br />

advertising in Mora daily in March<br />

1915 was agricultural equipment,<br />

primarily in the form of separators<br />

(which was used to divide the milk<br />

into different fractions). The large<br />

proportion of advertising for journals<br />

and books depends almost entirely on<br />

the newspaper's own advertising.<br />

Banking and finance advertising<br />

consisted in equal parts of banking<br />

and insurance advertising.<br />

The differences compared to ten years<br />

earlier, is probably partly due to that<br />

in 1915 the world War I was ongoing.<br />

We escaped the battles, but the war<br />

hit us pretty hard anyway.<br />

Cereal production has doubled<br />

At the end of the 1800s half of the working population<br />

worked in agriculture (SCB, 1901). One hundred years<br />

later, it was no more than 1.3% (Statistics Sweden<br />

2005). Despite this, we produced so much more that<br />

we have gone from being importer of cereals to<br />

becoming exporters (SCB 1960 &<br />

2005).<br />

Total harvest of cereals<br />

7000<br />

6000<br />

1000s ton .<br />

5000<br />

4000<br />

3000<br />

2000<br />

1000<br />

Totaly<br />

Wheat<br />

Korn<br />

Oats<br />

0<br />

Rye<br />

1900<br />

1920<br />

1940<br />

Yearr<br />

1960<br />

1980<br />

2000<br />

The outcome of the cultivation has increased from 148<br />

kg wheat per hectares in 1898 (SCB, 1901) to 5 670<br />

kg in 1998 (SCB, 2005).<br />

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